In The Shadows, Rogue FBI Agents Deface Democracy

In The Shadows, Rogue FBI Agents Deface Democracy

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Whatever the outcome next Tuesday, our political system crossed a perilous rubicon during the days leading up to that climax: For the first time in recent memory, officials of the nation’s premier law enforcement agency sought to influence a national election with illicit leaks.

Murky information about investigations of Hillary Clinton’s emails and the Clinton Foundation, even fraudulent rumors of “indictments” have flooded the media, all somehow traced back to the FBI — with Rudolph Giuliani of the Trump campaign boasting on Fox News that he had advance knowledge of these manipulations.

Owing to his longstanding connections with the bureau, Giuliani had predicted “a couple of surprises” to come in late October, just days before FBI director James Comey sent his fateful letter to Congress about reviewing new emails in the Clinton case he closed last July.

“You’ll see, and I think it will be enormously effective,” he said on Fox News. In fact. Giuliani had joined in publicly pressuring Comey for months, claiming to know of a “revolt” among agents against the decision not to prosecute Clinton.

Having covered the investigations of the New York FBI office for more than 30 years, reporter Wayne Barrett drew the connections between Giuliani, former FBI supervisor James Kallstrom (also a vocal Trump supporter), and the leaks that have plagued the Clinton campaign in The Daily Beast. Among the handful of real charitable donations ever made by Trump are some generous payments to a charity headed by Kallstrom — who, like Giuliani, predicted last summer that disgruntled agents might reveal “a lot more of the facts” about the email probe “come out in the next few months.”

Now perhaps those agents — along with Giuliani, Kallstrom, and their friend Donald Trump — don’t understand that there was nothing scandalous, let alone criminal, in Clinton’s decision to use a private email account like her predecessor Colin Powell. Perhaps they don’t understand that Clinton’s handling of “classified” emails — characterized as “extremely careless” by Comey, in one of his departures from normal Justice Department practice — was altogether routine in the federal government, where classification standards vary by department and change often. Perhaps they also don’t understand why Comey found that the evidence showed no bad intent by Clinton or the lawyers who reviewed her emails to delete personal material.

And perhaps they don’t realize why the public integrity professionals at the Justice Department rejected their ridiculous determination to investigate the Clinton Foundation, based on discredited accusations in a book created and publicized by the political extremist who later became the chief executive of Trump’s campaign. (The reported eagerness of federal agents to pursue the canards in that book doesn’t reflect well on their forensic skills, but that’s a different problem.)

It is more likely that the FBI agents involved in this operation do understand why prosecutors — including Comey, a former U. S. attorney and deputy attorney general — but simply don’t care because they are right-wing ideologues with a partisan preference. But that distinction doesn’t matter much, because in either case they have violated their oaths and their duty as federal agents, by seeking to influence this election through leaks.

Leaking investigative material is always a violation of the rules that govern the judicial system — which protect the rights of all citizens. In the days and weeks before an election, violating those rules to achieve a partisan objective is an assault on democracy.

Simply put, politics must play no role in the decisions of federal investigators or prosecutors regarding any investigations or criminal charges. Law enforcement officers and prosecutors may never select the timing of investigative steps or criminal charges for the purpose of affecting any election, or for the purpose of giving an advantage or disadvantage to any candidate or political party. Such a purpose is inconsistent with the Department’s mission and with the Principles of Federal Prosecution.

That last sentence is mild language for a despicable act. In a police state, prosecutors and police agents seek to direct politics from the shadows. In a democracy, law enforcement officials must never attempt to influence elections. What the rogue agents have done in these past few days is all too similar to the standard practice in Putin’s Russia and other authoritarian states. It is far below the American constitutional standard that those agents swore to uphold.

A highly experienced journalist, author and editor, Joe Conason is the editor-in-chief of The National Memo, founded in July 2011. He was formerly the executive editor of the New York Observer, where he wrote a popular political column for many years. His columns are distributed by Creators Syndicate and his reporting and writing have appeared in many publications around the world, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, The New Yorker, The New Republic, TheNation, and Harpers.

Currently he is working on a new book about former President Bill Clinton's life and work since leaving the White House in 2001. He is a frequent guest on radio and television, including MSNBC's Morning Joe, and lives in New York City with his wife and two children.

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“You’ll see, and I think it will be enormously effective,” he said on Fox News. In fact. Giuliani had joined in publicly pressuring Comey for months, claiming to know of a “revolt” among agents against the decision not to prosecute Clinton…”

Will someone please get Rudy over to Bellevue Mental Hospital, or some other facility for hourly checkups? The stress of having been mayor, and handicapped with a vivid imagination before he took the job, has had a tremendous toll on him.

Current local time in Muscat is 1:00PM…temperature is 89 degrees and it looks to be hot and sweaty inside Sharia Court where the cases of non Muslims caught worshipping in their homes will be heard. Pray for them, just pray for them.

So what’s going to happen with you aggie after Trump is thoroughly humiliated? We don’t have to worry about Donnie. He’ll stiff the vendors and workers associated with his campaign and milk whatever he can out of his campaign coffers before fading back into being just the loudmouth small handed vulgarian he was before his new notoriety. No doubt he already has plans to scam money from the befuddled like you.

Even Trump knows he’s beat. He’s been whining like a 2 year old and he hasn’t even been spanked yet.

I was also intrigued by that particular quote, because it told me two things: (1) that the demented Rudy and the disingenuous Fox Noise talking heads are cozy co-conspirators, and (2) that they’re all more interested in what’s “effective” than what’s true.

After having lost all respect and faith in the Supreme Court over the past several years and it voting by 5 to 4 margins repeatedly, over 93% of the time in favor of corporations, knocking down article 5 of the voting rights act along with Chief Justice Roberts inane comment that ” there is no racism any longer”, unbelievable, and the Court actually having some of the lowest approval ratings ever………NOW, the FBI has these Fascist FBI retired and current agents attempting to influence our election by using and leaking fantastical lies, phony e-mails, using an alt right book and the alt right author along with Steve Bannon’s influence as some kind of “fact finding” absurdity…….this is just all too surreal to me and depressing beyond all reason!!!! To have the New York FBI office being referred to as Trumplandia, along with Rudy Giuliani’s “help” and obvious unreasoned hatred for Hillary, and knowing what Trump clearly represents, racism, bigotry, misogyny, hate on every level, ignorance on an epic scale, a complete disregard for the Constitution and the rule of law, and lying at levels never seen, which has been painfully apparent over and over again from his own mouth for a year and a half in addition to the 30 plus years this creature has craved attention and fame for all the wrong reasons……..That the FBI, once respected and highest legal/investigative organization has devolved into and has chosen to attach itself to, Donald J. Trump, if only a small number of agents are represented …………. my God, can it get any worse!!! Well yes it can, this awful, awful man, Trump, and his legions of sick like minded idiots could actually win, then welcome to Hell….does anyone question WHY Republicans aren’t being hacked by either the Russians or WikiLeaks and their e-mails stolen for all to judge and read, NOW THAT would be a real interesting read, Hells Bells, Dick Cheney’s alone should make for nauseating reading and Cheney is ACTUALLY responsible for the deaths of military men and women in ginning up a phony war for all the wrong reasons based on lies or how about Steve Bannon’s emails over the years, that would be like descending into the depths of Hell…… talk about a political party that is the antithesis of decency with a complete lack of a moral compass, absent any integrity whatsoever!!!! God Almighty, something really stinks in this country right now, and it’s coming from the far right swamp!!! Mercifully this nightmare will be over in 4 days, but the damage left in it’s wake will take years to repair both in this country and world wide!!!

You do know that redflagnews isn’t a reliable news source. If this is where you get your “Facts” from no wonder you have such a limited knowledge of them. It’s hard to believe that anyone would trust this sight.

If one defines a rogue as someone who is a fiercely loyal patriot that bravely pursues the truth against powerful and threatening forces of corruption in exposing the truth behind a money laundering, racketeering enterprise called the Clinton Foundation, and which is led by what are currently America’s two most notorious money changer, free roaming felons, Bill and Hillary Clinton, then yes, these FBI agents are rogues…..AND WE NEED EVEN MORE ROGUES TO STEP UP AND SAVE THIS COUNTRY!!! George Washington was considered a rogue by the British leading up to the Revolution and look what he accomplished!

Lander got all too used to living off our tax dollars. Now, he knows that we are all wise to his corruption and gaming the system. He knows that Americans have had enough of their lies and distortions to make them fat and well off.

After some years of actual APPARENTLY not being about some ugly cultural agenda, the FBI is BBAACCKK!!

Back 2 B-ing as rogue as in the Hoover days. No actual human could deal w/the pressures he must B under from both the hard core partisans on his right, and those determined to play it straight on his left.

If he’s as thoroughly decent as rumors have it, Comey should just resign.

When McCarthy called Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz communists along with Gregory Peck and caused the suicide of the AT&T employee Cohn so viciously attacked with his UNFOUNDED accusations, twisting and turning every word out of that man’s mouth, this is the same stunt that Gowdy and Chaffetz, two KOCH attack dogs did in Benghazi and EmailGate.

They have NO Proof. But to these nutbags that doesn’t matter. If they say you are guilty, well then how dare you expect to be able to defend yourself? Didn’t you know these nuts are the last word on everything on YOUR tax dollars?

How can you state the pursuit of truth when you can not accept facts? I don’t quite understand how you put the Clinton Foundation as your example when it is much more “truthfully” belongs as the name of how the drumpf foundation or should I just say slush fund here, works. To claim you and your ilk are anything like George Washington is to degrade not only his name and legacy but all of America. If you can not name the charge and the actual law, as you believe it applies, then you have NOTHING and are therefore playing politics at best and entirely stupid at the worst. You figure it out troll.

In my opinion, Director Comey had no alternative but to disclose that new e-mails had been found in the disgraced former Rep. Wiener’s computer. He knew that had he not disclosed the new findings, some of his subordinates would have done it for me, and very likely in a way not too dissimilar from what Trump has been doing since the latest revelations surfaced.
The fact that there are far right conservatives in the FBI and the military, especially in the commissioned officers corps, is a reality that we must accept and live with.
It was either an ambiguous memo open to interpretation, or insinuations of 650,000 e-mails (most of them dealing with Wiener’s perverted behavior.)
The unfortunate truth is that the alt-right managed to come up with another October surprise, which in addition to the announcement of ACA premium increases that affect about 7% of our population, have been transformed into a scandal of major proportions, changed the narrative from the despicable behavior and traits of Donald Trump, and may hand the election to a con man that should have been serving time in jail years ago.

I am not so sure. Comey was involved in the bogus Whitewater investigation! After all. He also pushed the Ferguson effect even thought he admitted having no evidence, a clearly inflammatory action. He trashed Hillary in a press conference as careless with classified emails then turned around and testified that it would have been perfectly reasonable for a person knowledgeable about our classification system to assume the supposedly classified emails on her server were in fact not classified:
“Comey’s highly newsworthy, yet largely media-ignored, admission exonerated Hillary not only from any crime but also from the charge of lying (about whether she had handled classified material on her private server,) and suggests, moreover, that there was nothing careless about Clinton’s handling of classified material, as none of the emails she had sent or received had been properly marked as classified. Just as Clinton had said.”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/susan-bordo-/james-comeys-sins-of-omis_b_12735220.html

That Comey did not recommend indictment is not evidence that he is playing fair. He is smart enough to know that he did not have evidence to convict it come close to it. Instead he chose to trash her either because he would like to take her down or because he wanted to please the agents he is unwilling to control. Because he willingly joined the Whitewater witch hunt my bet is on the former.

You are correct. He played politics with his address after the investigation in his “op ed” right wing editorial of loosness against Hillary’s handling of material. That really also may have been just how those emails had to be handled as a result of the antiquated machinery the government had to use due to the almost $600,000,000 cut from the Republican congress in their funding. We have got to stop this insane approach to thinking we can starve the beast at every level and somehow expect it to work at all. Either we want a Democracy or we don’t and if we choose to want it then we need to get behind it and support it.
Comey may be a right wing hack but he is still sane enough to realize that there is no there there with these emails unlike some of the New York Office hair on fire people. All of these should be smoked out and prosecuted under the Hatch act for their crimes and in doing so maybe they will again realize what a real crime looks like. Reprimands won’t do. It is time these become former agents cut off from the flow of any future law investigations and hopefully with enough stain on their records as to not be able to find any law enforcement jobs anywhere in a free society.

During my career as a publisher I had to ride herd on a number of writers and editors who thought their opinions were more valid than research and clinical trial data. Had I allowed them to prevail the journals would have absolutely lost credibility and been shut down, not to mention doing harm to the medical community on the way down. When they slanted their writing and/or editing they got 2 more chances to act impartially or I fired them. Period. What is Comey’s wimpy problem taking them in hand?

The same thought crossed my mind. I suspect that his decision to condone behavior unbecoming of members of a law enforcement organization, such as the FBI, was influenced by the need to allow discordant voices to be heard. That does not excuse his decision to interfere with the outcome of an election, but it may explain why he did not act as resolutely as a manager in private industry would, under similar circumstances.

We need more women in responsible positions like you, from top to bottom to help straighten out centuries of mess made by conceited and small-minded men like Comey, and the GOP. The ballot box is one of the key areas to start from. Glad to know you took a firm and decisive stand in dealing with irresponsible journalism.

From my experience, for the most part, women did not suffer from the debilitating blindness that ego afflicts on men. I am not saying that women are immune, and not all men suffer that illness, but still….
As any woman on this forum can attest, we have to be smarter, wiser, calmer, more patient and more firm to achieve what men take for granted. And as anyone should be able to attest, we all have to be willing to be fired for standing up and doing the right thing – whether following the charter and expectations of our jobs or refusing to be bullied even by a boss. As my dad always said “personal honor is like virginity in that once you lose it you do not get it back”

Which brings up the point of the equality of women and men. This is one of the cornerstones of Baha’u’llah’s Message. Not that this is something that just occurred—it was always this way, but circumstances impelled men to take certain roles that emphasized their input on certain aspects of human society, and within the family. Al the while, the reality of the equality of women and men was operating at a transcendent level, while in day-to-day affairs that wasn’t apparent. Which explains certain passages in the Bible(New and Old Testament), and in the Qur’an why the status of men was given more “press”.
But this social disparity all began to fade away, and it should be noticed that the dawn of that would take place in such a male-dominated culture as had evolved within Islam. The Bab, the predecessor of Baha’u’llah, sparked this change by indirectly and mysteriously affecting the mind-sets of a fanatical Islamic community in Iran. Tahirih, one of the outstanding early followers of the new impulse generated by the Bab(aka Siyyid Ali Muhammad, His given name), responded to this unseen influence and threw off her veil at a gathering of fellow “Babis” in Badasht. At about the exact period, the influence was felt in upstate New York and women began to stir and agitate for change in their status.

Now, we’re at a new plateau in this gradual realization of the Reality of Equality of Women and Men. As usual, change is not easy to accept, as seen in Iran with Babi and Baha’i women showing excellence in governance, professional work, and in education. America is undergoing similar problems adjusting, as are men in the Middle East faced with a demand for women’s rights in Saudi Arabia. The Baha’is there, out of safety and wisdom, are causing changes to occur by the way they conduct themselves without saying anything. They are quietly influencing events there, in Iran, and other parts of the Muslim world. We Baha’i men in America can be more vocal about this necessity, as I’m trying to do, without fear of death or reprisal that Baha’i men in Muslim countries would face.

But, equality does not mean sameness. One of the points highlighted by Baha’u’llah is that the wings of the bird must each be strong, but in the real world certain rights are specific to women, such as being the first educators of children. Because of that, Baha’u’llah specifically points out that if funding for education allows for one child to go to school, and if the choice involves a boy and a girl, He states em[phatically that the girl should be the one to get the funding for education. There are other areas where one would expect men to be given the nod—such as playing left tackle on the football team, or going one-on-one with Dr. J or Michael Jordan.

Sorry to be so long-winded, but “The Devil Made Me Do It”[think Flip Wilson with a falsetto].

Thank you—you’re too kind. I yield to you and the other women here in this forum. Most of the men here have similar gifts an capacities, except for a disturbing noticeable few, whose names I don’t have to mention.

I was thinking more about your observation that women and men have different perspectives, and it reminded me of some statements in a compilation by Abdu’l Baha and Baha’u’llah regarding women, and about spiritual qualities inherent in both men and women. They spoke of women having developed more certain spiritual qualities and capacities that men will have to develop more fully in the future in order to catch up—because they lacked the time and temperament to do so in the past.
I’ll pass that on when I locate the compilation buried somewhere on one of my book shelves with my Baha’i literature.

again thank you and I look forward to the name of the book on your shelf:) There is an energy that is uniquely male or female, the ancient Chinese called it Yin and Yang of course. But one can “feel” it or sense it and I can hear the frequencies. I have been cursed with at-times unbearable tinnitus for 20 years since a protracted use of an antibiotic that is known to cause deafness. Of course when I feel sorry for myself I remember the doctor telling me how lucky I was that it did not render me deaf…my point is that I hear a constant “electrical” sound that changes frequencies when I am in the company of males or females. While I struggle to describe it, I do know the difference as it is quite remarkable.

I presume you are not being facetious…no, what I “hear” is how I described it to Aaron, an electrical buzz or hum. Current research indicates that tinnitus sufferers hear what was never meant to be heard – the atomic-level sounds produced inside the brain. We know that the brain is an electrical generator connecting electrical impulses to the heart and other organs via synapses “forwarded” by nerve tissue. So the sounds we hear are the same as one would hear standing near an electrical substation where electrical power is sent out over wires. Over the years in my struggle to accept it I have tried to listen closely and make some sense of it. That is just my extremely simple-minded observation.

No, ma’am. I’m serious.
And when I asked about children having a different “tune”, I meant it. On an amplified electronic device, different oscillations produce different tonal qualities. (Smart people are rolling their eyes because neither one of us really knows beans about this stuff, except what we could pick up for ourselves.) I’m old enough to have used a knob to literally tune in a radio station. When there wasn’t too much static, the voids between broadcasts in the lower and upper ends of the dial range produced distinctly different electronic tones. That’s what I was driving at.
On the other hand, facetiousness, mischief, and a propensity for blurting are my lifelong struggle. As always, Mama, thank you for your patience.

you are sweet, seriously:) I do think that there is a difference between an electronic sound and an electrical sound. Not sure why think that but I too am old enough to have had (and still do) a radio with a tuning knob and I know that static sound – it is not what I hear.

You are very sweet:) I too am old enough to have had…and still have a radio with a dial. I do not think that electronic and electrical sounds are the same. At least I can honestly say that the sound I hear changing the dial on the clock radio is the same sound I hear.

presuming you are not being facetious….The way I described it to Aaron is what I hear, just two “frequencies” (that is my word for the sounds). Current research indicates that what tinnitus sufferers hear is something that was never meant to be heard – the electrical transmissions of the brain. We know that the brain is the electrical generator sending impulses to the heart and other organs via synapses moved by nerve tissue. So the sound is that transmission. If you stand near an electrical substation where power is being moved through wires you hear it – and it is sometimes deafening and always annoying. In my attempts to accept and cope with it I decided to listen very carefully to see if it made any kind of sense. That is my best description of what I “hear”. Of course there are also loud pops and whistles and the “whop-whop” one that sounds like a police car’s noise and then the times sound just totally goes away for a few minutes….but the buzz or hum is my constant companion.

I look forward the name of that compilation:) I think men and women operate on different frequencies, different energies. For 20 years I have been afflicted with an at times unbearable tinnitus as the result of a protracted use of an antibiotic that is known to cause total deafness. I hear a constant “electrical” sound that I struggle to describe – if you have ever stood near a high tension power substation you have heard it. I notice that the sound changes frequency when I am in the company of men or women. And it vacillates between the two when both sexes are near me. That is why I think there is an energy we operate on that is very different. Not so sure we could change that flow.

Sorry Dominick I have to disagree with you. We can’t take the Federal Bureau Investigation (FBI) Department and try to feel content with it. It is quite wrong the way the Bureau is operating these days. They must operate including all people and not deciding to pick one Party and not the other. What FBI has done this election cycle is a big shame. Even in third countries they don’t operate the way FBI did. What I think, FBI must be reformed completely. Get a new leader who will restore the faith, trust and confidence civilians used to have in this vey important Institution of the Federal Government.

I guess I did not articulate my opinion clearly enough. I believe Comey’s decision to make the new findings public, without evidence of wrongdoing, was wrong. I was simply trying to offer an explanation into what may have influenced his decision. I don’t believe he is a radical or a partisan politician determined to advance a political agenda. I suspect he felt he had no choice but to make what was going on public to avoid more severe repercussions.
By so doing, he has irreparably damaged the integrity and image of one of the most respected institutions of government in the USA.

That doesn’t sound right to me. If Comey was fearful his subordinates would leak the information, he should have allowed them to commit the offense, then taken action against them. That would have, at once, restored integrity to the election process and to the Bureau.

Instead, Comey chose to throw the process into turmoil himself, and in the intervening 8 days he’s done nothing to quell the disturbance he created. The upshot is that the FBI is now regarded as a rogue entity, seemingly intent on undermining our democracy. He has brought great discredit upon himself and the once proud, now tarnished FBI. Not to mention the fact that he’s offered aid and comfort to the odious Donald Trump and his deplorable hordes.

“For the first time in recent memory, officials of the nation’s premier law enforcement agency sought to influence a national election with illicit leaks.” I beg to differ. The FBI did the same thing when Louie Freeh paired up with Ken Starr to bring Bill Clinton down. That was a massive effort to influence a national election retroactively.

I have always wondered why the mainstream media, and The NY Times in particular, were so willing to print the accusations of far right political operatives from the Arkansas Project in the 90’s and recently from guys like Trey Gowdy and Jason Chaffetz. Now that I see just how radicalized the NY office of the FBI has been for years I suspect that most of this info was shopped to these rogue FBI agents who in turn shopped it to The NY Times. That would explain a lot. I wonder what Joe Conason thinks about that possibility.

when Hillary gets in the house she should start cleaning house and country . and the thing she should do is not a payback at all it would be doing the job of the Pres. tell the ATT. GEN. to investigate the leaks with the FBI and also that RUDY clown and who told his things from the FBI . also the same team investigate the N.J. beached whale . also investigate all those who wasted the big money and time on the Benghazi and the emails (that thy came up with nothing on ) check in on all the inside workers and the work that thy have been doing . and get all these clowns in office that worked so hard on B/S (admitted it was just to make Hillary look bad ) get to the root of all this wasted time and money of the country . put them all under investigation and set them each down to be questioned until the answers come out . and then the DEM party should start the first day she is in office start advertising with the DEMS campaign money to start ones in office that will work to get things done not blocking every thing . already the GOP gang of pinhead idiots are saying that thy will block a SCJ to put a judge in there . first thy say let the next Pres. sit that judge (a LIE ) for now thy say thy will block anyone she put up for the sit . the Pres. has to start telling the people to get the GOP out of office so things can get done and not blocking everything .

The only house Hillary should get into is the Big House. I just saw an interview of the mother of a serviceman who is serving a sentence for taking five pictures. The federal crimes that Hillary has committed are a thousand times worse, and she is running for president?

We now have sailor serving a year in prison for taking 6 pictures for his own personal use to show his wife and kids in a submarine. This was called a security violation. I guess compromising secret and top secret documents is not nearly as serious. It has now been shown the personal server was hacked 10 times. This was admitted in the emails to Podesta

They are like windups. You hear the same old tired lies over and over. Bearing false witness makes a person responsible for repeating falsehoods about someone and if they break one commandment they break them all.

Bladderflap!
What we’re seeing is corporate manipulation of once fine agents, now traitors to this nation…much like Dick Chaney and his pals who revealed the identity of a CIA agent.
Funny, how dishonest Republicans forget their traitors.
They don’t care about the well-being of The People, just the well-being of their own personal lot.
Real Americans want a happy healthy nation, not a dirty corporate run one.
Repeal the ‘Citizens United’ ruling!

Look at what our NJ Governor Fat Mouth got away with on BridgeGate and the Port Authority appointment of his best friends, Samson and Wilderstein. Fat Mouth dumped 90% of the blame on Bridget Kelly like ALL Republican and right wing men always do. They blame Hillary for Benghazi when the Republicans defunded the diplomatic department funding. Prior to that, their back room president, Cheney, dumped on SOS Rice and she was the only one who went before the 9/11 Commission and got her butt reamed out.

What you incorrectly call corrupt (because of your bias) is what in the real world know as the rule of law. That is why you set your hair on fire at every little thing and then seethe for years to come when it does not fit the rule of law as a violation requiring either prosecution nor if prosecuted would it render a guilty ruling. Time for your ilk to get some education and join the real world or perhaps create your own space somewhere with like thinking fools. Either or, your choice.

Fast and Furious…Benghazi…MonicaGate…want more? Billy Bush was drunk and so was his brother George. Daddy brokered the deal to delay the release of the Iran hostages so it would look like Reagan and not Carter was responsible.

You want to talk Scandals? Tell us how in the hell Hastert as Speaker of the House got away with playing around with little boys? Now, you support Trump who is the FIRST presidential candidate to go on trial in a RAPE case. Proud of that too?

Bush killed 3300 people, 11 in my town because Iraq was so important that he ignored ALL the al Qaeda attack warnings for which that coward got SOS Rice to take the blame in front of 9/11 Commission. Want more? You and your Hillary scandals are bullshit and you know it. If you had anything in the last 44 years except your hate for a woman who has spent more time helping women and children around the world. But all YOU know you stupid moron is lies about the Clinton Foundation. Bill getting away with the adultery YOU didn’t and Hillary being bad.

You hicks love to take credit for what everyone does. You are lying sack of cow crap who bashes Obama because your Mutton Chops KKK Grandpappies ate hate into your families through interbreeding with each other.

I just love how you throw names around of events that you have no clue about. What do you really know about any of these events except for what you have been told but your Right Wing Mind Controllers. You have been given simple descriptions of each of these events that you can handle but which really are not the facts of the event. The real facts are lost on you.

Add to his party: Teapot dome scandal, Watergate, Bridgegate, war crimes, a lie so colossal that no liberal could even come close, the WMDs to get us into a war that will take decades to pay off, 40 million dollars in phony investigations that we cannot afford, lying without compunction, Supreme Court that removes any constraints on honesty and money for elections, violation of the Constitution by interfering with a president’s negotiations with a foreign country, violation of the Constitution by not holding hearings on a presidential appointee, an FBI that gets into politics, police departments that endorse a candidate, Senate majority leader who says the senate’s no 1 goal is to make the newly elected president a one-term president, lies by the number to discredit the opposing candidate and when nothing can be proved tell the same lie again so people will start to believe, having a candidate who bragged about three things that most people find offensive: p-grabbing, entering Miss Universe Dressing room and telling them they didn’t have anything he hadn’t seen before; entering Miss Teen America’s dressing room while they were changing clothes, stepping out on his wives, not paying taxes, taking out bankruptcy so he will not have to pay money he signed a contract to do, paying people cents on the dollar when he had promised in a contract to pay more, thirteen women claims he groped them, including Miss Finland.

when Hillary gets in the house she should start cleaning house and country . and the thing she should do is not a payback at all it would be doing the job of the Pres. tell the ATT. GEN. to investigate the leaks with the FBI and also that RUDY clown and who told his things from the FBI . also the same team investigate the N.J. beached whale . also investigate all those who wasted the big money and time on the Benghazi and the emails (that thy came up with nothing on ) check in on all the inside workers and the work that thy have been doing . and get all these clowns in office that worked so hard on B/S (admitted it was just to make Hillary look bad ) get to the root of all this wasted time and money of the country . put them all under investigation and set them each down to be questioned until the answers come out . and then the DEM party should start the first day she is in office start advertising with the DEMS campaign money to start ones in office that will work to get things done not blocking every thing . already the GOP gang of pinhead idiots are saying that thy will block a SCJ to put a judge in there . first thy say let the next Pres. sit that judge (a LIE ) for now thy say thy will block anyone she put up for the sit . the Pres. has to start telling the people to get the GOP out of office so things can get done and not blocking everything ..and then make sure the people of the country know the reason the ACA isn’t doing as well as it should be doing is the fact all the GOP Governors of the different states have block the chance of the people to get and try to use the ACA . 20 million people have it today if all let their states use the ACA one could see over 100 million using it . with those numbers the prices can go lower for cost . simply the more the merrier . get the ones out of offices that are blocking these things for the people

We know what your replies show…Bully brains, big mouth, cow sized butt and the refusal to speak intelligently with PROOF. Get the proof of stop posting so the rest of us can discuss the nation’s problems and help resolve them.

I guess you don’t consider calling the President of the United States, “Odumber” or “Odumbo” name calling? You are such a phony! You think we will let you get away with doing all the name calling, lying and distortions of truth? Think again.

Here is what I posted, “I guess YOU don’t consider calling the President of the United States,….” You must have a guilt complex since I specifically did NOT say YOU called him names but that you “don’t consider” that name calling when you support others who do.

I don’t ever dignify liars remarks like yours. I always post proof. YOU NEVER DO!!!!!! Post your proof and you won’t look like a liar who makes up personal opinion and tries to use that as “proof.” Get the proof if you want to be believed.

I posted the Constitution of the United States to prove something to you and you called it bogus. Why would I waste my time proving something to someone that doesn’t even believe the Constitution. You are the liar here.

You posted the CONfederate Constitution. Not the Constitution of the USA. Sorry but I am sittting right now at my computer with my U.S. Constitution right beside me. Now, keep up your distortions and your reinterpretations. Maybe you hicks will find a way around the Civil Rights Act, the Equal Pay Act, the Hatch Act and the RICO Act?

Whoopty–do for you. Now, what does the Constitution have to do with the fact that you weren’t potty-trained by your parents?? The Constitution has nothing to do with the fact that the FBI knowingly tainted the voting process. Since you can’t read well, I would advise you not to trouble yourself with any weighty document. Stick with Dick Tracy and Flash Gordon.

No you haven’t, but now we know you’ve been itching to do so. Otherwise, those names wouldn’t flow from your tiny mind so effortlessly.
Do you have a fetish for masochism? You keep posting inanities and idiocies, you get pilloried in response, yet you keep coming back for more. Your parents must have beaten you so much that you’re inured to pain, and strangely welcome it.
Try a different tact. Try thinking more deeply about the issues, formulate a reasonable response based on the story rather than on your deep-seated biases, then see what kind of response you get. I bet that you’ll be thanked for saying something positive for a change.
For now, your egocentric, haughty, and belligerent attitude stand in your way.

A feeble response. You should aspire to say more intelligent things.
As for Nazi, you’re just oozing the aura of that demented ideology–One which is inherent in Donald. So, if you want to speak “nazi lingo”, confer with the Nazis who are loyal to Herr Donald Drumpf.

Wonder if itsfun is filling in for AgLander ? Or perhaps Aggie is itsfun? Either way they are both like a broken record, repeating themselves over and over ad nauseam, without any concrete proof to back up their claims – and most often what they claim are debunked lies coming straight out of the RepuliCON elephant’s trunk.

Aggie and Itsy earn their pays from trolling on these sites. I am always online because I am a freelance writer who is emailed by the online content site’s clients to write their articles and white papers. I work for 3 different content sites all of whom pay either per word or per article.

the pair of them swing from the back of a bull and both have the DONNY DUMP illness thy are addicted junkie seeking attention for their fix brain dead and loss in their own empty heads that thy wear their AZZ’s for a hat

If leaking information is a crime and we know it is happening both from the FBI and the Congress why is nothing being done about it. I’m getting really tired of the half truths and misleading information being used against people. When was the last time anyone was thrown into jail for these actions? I hope that Clinton has had enough of it and will instruct the AG to get on the problem.

In the meantime evidence exists that the DNC in Washington was bugged. Look what happened to Nixon for bugging Watergate DNC headquarters, even though he did not physically do the deed he was responsible. Where is the FBI on this issue? Where are the “scandalous” headlines? Why am I starting to suspect that Hillary does not have a chance to live long enough to serve?

Excuses, excuses, excuses, excuses. Come up with proof and fact Itsy…or guess what? No one will give a fat rat’s patoot about your distortions and lies.

And, your day is coming. You and your winges managed to piss off ALL the wrong Americans who are now outraged and will give you what you asked for….cut off all of our state dollars to your states. How’s that gonna feel when you have to actually work for a living?

We know all about who YOU care about…YOU YOU YOU YOU…Hey alien from Planet Hater…guess what? You live in MY society now…Shape up or ship the hell off to your alien planet where dead wood life forms like you can rot.

Don’t you mean madam prisoner? Your are the one that hates men, southerners, and everyone that kiss you hind end. Have you paid to have any books published lately. By the way do you want me to post all of your comments about what impeachment and removal is? Especially the one where you call the Constitution bogus and one of you crying about me sitting you up after I proved the Constitutional article to you.

No I mean Madam President…Do you mean Humpty Trumpty? The scumbucket who used to hang out in the sex orgy pit in Manhattan known as Plato’s? Do you mean that Trumpenstein monster who scours brothels all over Europe, bring back his trashy whore for Huge Hefner to clean up for NUDE Playboy Centerfolds? Do you mean CrowdStrike who was the group who found the breach in the emails the Russians hacked into at the DNC? Come on asshat…You want to also approve of the Republican thugs who broke into the WaterGate Hotel in DC and burglarized it?

I got plenty more if you have the balls to face truths I can prove. Or do you want to deny Nixon had to resign for WaterGate?

The DNC leader didn’t get caught. It was already proved by an independent IT group, CrowdStrike, that the Russians hacked into the DNC emails for the purpose of gathering all of the names of Hillary supporters so they could then alter the votes to look like they voted for Trump and not Hillary. Tell us..were you always so stupid or is it a natural talent?

Election Day here in NJ is just 2 days away. Did you happen to catch the long long lines in NC? You know? That bigot state the SC had to rein in for trying to close dozens of polls in the minority regions of that state ONLY?

So..tell me bigot face. Did your Mommy and Daddy inbreed you and that’s why you are a hateful KKK relic?

One of President Ford’s first official acts was the pardon of his predecessor, Nixon — and Nixon had confessed!
Nobody has to “catch” Sec. Clinton. She will — as she has throughout her public career — gladly face whatever absurdly fraught “investigations” her opponents choose to bring. Although I resent continued waste of my tax dollars and legislative time, I encourage you to take your best shot. You’ve never been successful before. There is no reason or evidence to indicate that you will have a different outcome now.
P.S. Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned in the face of more important matters — like the 2016 Democratic Convention, and her own reelection to Florida’s 23rd district.

yep Debbie Schultz did nothing wrong and resigned just to give another person a chance to rig elections. Donna did get fired from CNN for giving questions to Hillary for a debate. Four Americans didn’t get killed in Benghazi, Hillary didn’t lie about getting shot at in Bosnia. Hillary didn’t delete 30,000 emails after a court order not to destroy them was issued. Hillary is more corrupt than Al Capone was.

Donna Brazile suspended her duties with CNN when she became interim chair of the Democratic party. She VOLUNTARILY resigned from CNN October 14th, more than a week before they made their announcement. She was not fired.
Talk to Rep. Trey Gowdy about Benghazi, FunnyHead. He was the eighth investigator to find no evidence of malfeasance.
Today it’s 30,000 “destroyed emails”, yesterday it was 33,000. Why can’t you people keep your story straight?

P.S.Al Capone? I’m pretty sure Sec. Clinton has never used a tommygun.

You may get what you deserve, itsfun. Being a rebellious little man whose sole aim is to distract has consequences. Trump certainly is going to get a severe and rude awakening, this month and next year in court.

Don’t you ever give it up HATER? How in the hell do you pretend intelligence with that sack of brain dung crowding out any proof of your lies? Where in the hell is your proof? I have proof that Trump has to go to court for racketeering and violations of RICO laws…Nov. 28th…So rapist lover, tell us how many years did you spend teaching those little brain damaged moron kids of yours that same brand of lies and hate? You got not proof. Until you do…you know how far up that diseased hole of yours you can shove all your lies. Get the the proof of your accusations. You haven’t GOT ANY! That’s why YOU NEVER post any court records. You do love those moron Limpballs sound bites though don’t you hickface?

Has Trump been found guilty in court of racketeering? If I was a rapist lover, I would love Bill Clinton and his wife that protects a sexual predator.
sack of brain dung, rapist lover, little brain damaged moron kids, diseased hole of yours to shove all your lies. moron limpballs, hickface. You are just a dictionary of filthy insults. You have nothing but name calling. I won’t be lowering myself to your filthy name calling and insults. They are all signs of a weak mind trying to express itself.

FBI reported she had classified emails on her server. That is against the law. She lied to congress about how many devices she had. That is perjury and against the law.
I don’t love bill and he is probably a rapist. You try to insult but you aren’t smart enough to. All you can do is show off a weak mind with all of your name calling. Get back on your meds ASAP

Sec. Clinton did NOT sell uranium to Putin, Funnyhead. A US mining company was sold to a CANADIAN mining company, Uranium One. The State Department, Defense Department, Homeland Security, and Nuclear Regulatory Commission — along with several other federal, state and local authorities — approved the sale. AFTER the sale, the Canadian government approved Russian investment in Uranium One. That’s what happened. That’s all that happened.

Apparently you haven’t read or seen the damage being done to the property of people that support Trump. How about the people beaten up by Hillary supporters. Are you one of people destroying personal property and beating people up with your buddies?

I don’t think this can wait until January. On Monday morning, November 7, the Attorney General needs to walk through the door of the New York office with 10 fresh faced women FBI newbies; order all present to not speak to each other, and proceed to interview each and every member of that office while hooked up to a lie detector. All should be put on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation. Leave the newbies to answer the phone and do their best for the rest of the week. THEN, Mrs Lynch should call Mr. Comey and tell him what she has done and why.

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they are civil service employees. And you know you cannot “make” someone do their job, your recourse is to fire them. And you know how difficult it is to fire a civil servant. Lock them out until you can fire them.

then one gets all the people that don’t know what the heck thy are doing ( or do know and just plan the KAOS ) and give them a pick up stick and a trash bag and have them work in the park picking up trash . then thy have more jobs thy can fill with people that want to do what their job is and only that

I have to agree. This has to stop NOW. First, the Republican Party attempted to close down voting polls in NC in mainly minority districts. That state had to fight the case out in the SC and LOST.

Then, you had Rick Scott in Florida, closing polls in minority districts there using the lame excuse of a hurricane even a week after the hurricane passed. He got his.

The reality is that since Bush’s “MY WAY or the highway” line of crappola back in 2004 and his “spending” his “political capital,” the GOP was ready to line the DOJ under Gonzalez with ONLY Republican U.S. Attorneys, one of whom is my NJ Governor Fat Mouth who got his yesterday when Kelly and Baroni were found guilty on ALL 9 counts EACH for their cute little political game with BridgeGate. And who was the big mouth there who pretends he didn’t know? A Republican as usual. If Obama EVER dared to do what these Republicans have been doing for 8 years, they’d have not just impeached him but would have given him the good ole boy KKK punishment.

If the right wingers and Republicans keep this up, they won’t ever be able to step outside in public for fear of decent, honest Americans ganging up on them in angry mobs.You don’t smear our democracy and think you can just trample the U.S. Constitution.

Maybe its just the opposite of the title of this article. Maybe the law enforcement officers knew of the evidence in this case, and since they are sworn to protect our nation, they may have felt it was their duty to demand justice and to bring to light the hiding of evidence in this case. Maybe they felt the American citizens have the right to know the truth about someone running for President of the U.S. Our nation says that everyone is the same under the eyes of the law and all must be treated equally. If a sailor can be sentenced to one full year in prison for taking 6 pictures in a submarine for his own use, then a Presidential candidate should not be allowing classified documents to be compromised on a personal server. Maybe they felt that under Democracy, no candidate should be able to rig a primary election. Maybe this show that Democracy can work if we have honest people in the right places.

Maybe you need to stop trying so hard to get rid of Hillary. You are not an American citizen. You are another right wing alien from the planet HATER. Your version of Democracy is the same version Hitler had before he had to commit suicide to avoid get hung upside like your other Hero Mussolini.

Maybe you need to shut your gaping hole in your face? I contribute proof all the time you lying sack of cow dung. You NEVER have proof. Where is YOUR proof?

Here is what you post over and over until you choke on your own bile: Hillary is corrupt. Hillary can’t be trusted. Hillary is a criminal. Hillary is guilty.

That isn’t proof rot bag. That is just YOUR Mental CASE opinion. Get the court records of what she is guilty of. You can’t. There ARE NONE! Now stop posting your stupid delusions of imagination. Hillary will be president whether you and your uneducated hicks like that or not.

But, you play on a dangerous playing field if you think we will contribute one dime to jerks like you for your states. You WILL be working and gainfully employed or you and your states will end up more financially destitute than they already are.

Your hate is showing again. Your tying to bully me doesn’t work. Not afraid of bullies and never have been. Like I said you are so full of hate and jealously you have only a corrupt view of the world. I will post what and when I want. In case you don’t know, it called freedom of speech.

I don’t have to bully morons like you. You are absolutely my most fun breaking your chops. More important, if by bullying you mean demanding you stop lying and post some proof for a change, then you bet I’m bullying a lying sack of dung like you.

Your constant whining and reactionary responses to articles that enlighten just shows us what a creature of darkness you are. Your devotion to misery, discontent, despondency, and a downtrodden attitude aren’t gaining any traction here; your time would be better spent complaining with fellow deplorables rather than here.

It’s no fun, itsfun, being in your company—the TOWN HALL forum sponsored by that arch-despondent Wayne Alyn Root would gladly welcome you because they feed off of misery and discontent.

If they keep up that whining after Hillary is in the White House, you know they’ll get what’s coming to them. All bad little children need to be punished. There are plenty of non-violent ways to punish them.

Actually, It would be difficult to find a single unbiased special prosecutor at this point. It should probably go directly before the SC. At least there, Ginsburg, Kagan, Sotomayer and Kennedy would be unbiased.

Anuses have a purpose. Sometimes they might be offensive, but they are useful. Those neo Nazis are dangerous and are not useful. They are worse than what I have to clean off my shoe. My shoe can be cleaned and Democracy is in no danger from what is on my shoe. They are a malignancy.

Really? Okay..let’s see you write technical white papers like I do on biolfiltration, reverse osmosis technology and the affect of benzine on water quality. Can’t do that can you hick? Well, we do understand that Walmartians like you are not hired to do high tech writing.

By the way, I am also a published author of 2 novels and have ghost written over 5300 online articles for businesses you can’t even imagine exist down there in DogPatch.

Hey stupid, I’ve had 3 life careers unlike a welfare Walmartian like you. I taught dance for 12 years at Rutgers part-time. Call the college and ask…I dare you.

Before that? I started my first dance school business at age 21. While you were sitting on that fat butt and playing tiddly winks with Big Mama and Big Daddy.

As for paying for my novels to be published…WRONG again you lying skank. Go to the old PublishAmerica Website and you will see they were not a vanity press. I paid nothing and I have not one but 2 ISBN numbers that prove that. A jerk like you who ca’t write a sentence wouldn’t know you don’t get ISBN numbers that validate your book and publisher if you pay for it to be published…Oooooooh skanked again right?

And my third life career started when I was hired as a tech writer for environmental engineering which you already know. I also was given the job of accounting manager. Now do you want to tell us ALL about YOUR jobs? YOu bet you don’t you lousy coward!

You love to call people liars without evidence. For example, when you kept insisting the FBI wasn’t part of the DOJ – the dumbest claim you’ve ever made – everyone who told you you were wrong got called a liar. I don’t seem to recall you posting an apology for that?

You’re being obtuse again. We realize you desperately need the attention, and your mom abandoned you. But you’re an adult now, and it’s time for you to get a job and make yourself useful to humanity. Bitching and moaning will achieve nothing.
I repeat—bitching and moaning will achieve nothing. Each day passes and you still languish in a pit of misery and uselessness. Tell us about anything you’ve done that benefits your neighbors and the world, and don’t burden us with your snotty-nosed whining.

I will tell you why…Trump money to all of his Big 6 in the media in Manhattan. What a lot of outsiders of the Metro area don’t know is that the very buildings that 90% of US media is broadcast from is owned by Trump. All he has to do is threaten eviction and the entire media would be shut down until they relocate.

Not to worry though. The Trump hotel in Manhattan, where rents go for tens of thousands a month to some of the most posh renters, are petitioning to have the Trump name removed from the building. They claim that they don’t dare tell people where they live because even the taxi cab drivers in NY City won’t drive them to Trump Place in the heart of 5th Avenue.

You have said more than that tootsie…You have accused Hillary without a trial, without proof, without an indictment and only YOUR big mouth making the accusations. A violation of the U.S. Constitution…”Innocent until PROVEN guilty in a court of law by a jury of her peers.” Eat your heart out.

And that opinion is useless, as it is based on no facts whatsoever. You should be as ashamed of sharing it as you should be for the several embarrassing hours you spent insisting that the FBI wasn’t part of the DOJ.

Oh, wow…
I knew itsfun (I call him FunnyHead, so forgive me if I lapse) was a two-legged Breitbart sound byte, but you say he actually argued over whether the FBI is a division of DOJ? Really? He ARGUED instead of looking it up?
Oh, man…
You think he’s sick or something? That’s just… peculiar.

Read the Hatch Act stupid. It clearly states even after it was amended in 2003 that NO federal employee may engage in any activity that would influence voters or the outcome of an election. Civil Service laws…moron!

They knew they were violating the Hatch Act and are daring all of us to do anything about it. When your boys got themselves into this mess, they knew what they were doing and that there would be mass anger and furor. Now, comes their punishment.

They disavowed their oaths of service, FunnyHead. They have disregarded a few of the most basic rules of professional ethics. When cops and DAs skip these rules to win convictions, their phony rulings are overturned, and the attorneys are disbarred.
THAT is Justice.

They did not disavow their oaths of service. dunghead. They are trying to bring a criminal to justice. Did Hillary violate her oath of office by having a private email service to use for government business. Did she violate her oath by having classified documents on her private server. Those that have done less then her have been prosecuted and sent to prison. Ask the sailor who took 6 pictures inside the submarine he was stationed on. Even the court agreed he only used them for personal use to show his family, but the law made him go to prison. Hillary allowed lawyers with no security clearances to ready her emails and them let them decide if they were classified or not. She belongs in prison just for that alone.

“Did Hillary violate her oath of office by having a private email service to use for government business,”? No. Secs. Powell and Rice went a step further to jeopardize material in their email. They used public servers, like AOL, NetZero, and MSN Outlook.
“Did she violate her oath by having classified documents on her private server,”? No. The documents in question were classified AFTER her term ended.
The sailor you hold up in comparison KNEW that his cell phone photos were forbidden, but he did it anyway.
The FBI and the State Department don’t have a problem with her attorney’s final review. Why do you?

Amazing how you can completely ignore the findings of the FBI with Hillary’s server. Powell used government servers for his private email id. Two different things completely. It doesn’t matter when she quit being SOS, she had classified documents on a private unsecured email server. She violated her oath in all of those. The FBI does have a problem with it and you are just ignoring the facts.

She allowed people with absolutely no security clearance to read classified U.S. documents. That is against the law. Ask the general that allowed a confidential document to be read. Look at what happened to him.

Yup.
Conspicuously absent? NAACP, NEA, (or any union representing workers without firearms), industry associations, Chamber of Commerce, service clubs, or major charities.
I’m pretty sure that Trump’s vacant-eyed mob of angry white guys, a few of their bruised-up women, and a spate of addle-pated bible thumpers will not be sufficient to push him over the top.
They USED to be a thing — not any more.

You are the ‘moron’! Obviously, if lowly FBI agents are guilty of Hatch Act violations, then the AG is similarly guilty….or was that SkyHarbor Airport séance a figment of our imagination?
Please schedule your desperately needed ophthaloanal operation.

Oh… perhaps an ‘en camera’ meeting, with the husband of an individual running for public office and simultaneously under an FBI investigation by the AG, might by considered a Hatch Act violation.
P.S. Classified was found on that server.
Get off the KoolAid.

Yes running into someone on the plan is SUPER ILLEGAL, for some reason. What does that have to do with the FBI wasting resources investigating conspiracy fantasies based on a trash book that had to be heavily edited by the publisher (RUPERT goddam MURDOCH) before release, because it was all lies?

Get over it, FunnyHead.
“Maybe” my dear, departed father was the sole surviving scion of fabulously rich little duchy in Liechtenstein, decimated during the war.
You and the other Trump supporters don’t care a fig for “Democracy” when it gets in the way of winning. You care even less for the Constitution when it gets in the way of your efforts to harass black voters.
The means do not justify the ends, FunnyHead. People go to prison for that. Every day.

itsfun,I see you are still at it,defending your candidate,Trump,and a charge of forcible RAPE of a thirteen year old girl in 1992.His “buddy'(Jeffrey Epstein),recently completely completed a forcible RAPE sentence,charged with the same crime as your hero Donald Trump!!

Epstein is Bill Clinton’s friend. Clinton has been a “guest” of Epstein. Check your sources on that.

I have said several times on this site that if Trump is guilty of rape, then he belongs in prison, but not until he is proven guilty in a court. Which do you consider worse Trump and his supposed crime or Hillary and her selling out America for her personal profit?

The right wing poorly educated are a threat to democracy. They don’t even know what the word means. When you have a Congress that blatantly violates the Constitution and an FBI that is partisan and a Supreme Court that isn’t objective, you have a danger to your country. Greed and Ignorance are the two biggest threats to our country and greed feeds off ignorance. itsfun is a prime example of ignorance or the threat George Washington warned about – letting the back-country yeomen vote.

I never understand how the Dems can’t seem to get their message out clearly. Why don’t they tell people how Classified information is sent and handled? Classified information is not sent by e-mail to a private server. Mr. Painter said no idiot would ever do that. Tell people the difference between classified and confidential. These FBI agents should go to jail. This is exactly how an “SS” organization starts. If they can’t do their job because of their political leanings, they need to go.

She didn’t use state.gov and that is why no classified info was sent to that address. No matter how many times she is ACCUSED of receiving classified info at that address, there is no proof and if someone sent her classified info at that address, they would be the ones at fault. Did you not investigate how classified info is sent to a SOS? (Hard copy delivered to her personally, phone calls for responses and look up what goes on in the state dept. called “the line”.

Classified documents were found on her private unsecured server. That is against the law. Do you know how easy it is to change a email on your account. She could remove the classification markings and then send them out. Not using state.gov for any government document is also against the law.

Yes..You are correct…SOS Rice Did…now …where the hell are HER emails from the private server SHE used? All you want is your childish, big baby way. Time for you CONs to grow the hell up already. Most of us are fed up with your baby whining and griping.

So dungbag, Hillary didn’t commit any crime as Comey stated other than being negligent about using an email server. And moron….you are still down for the count. In 1 day, you will eat your own dung because Hillary WILL be president. You rapist lover.

they used private email accounts, not private servers. Hillary had her own personal server in her house. They had no such thing. So dunghead Hillary did commit crimes as the FBI director said. He said she had classified documents on her server. He said she used multiple devises after she lied to congress and said she only had one device. You will be eating your own dung criminal lover.

Get over it, FunnyHead.
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) investigated. Found no malfeasance.
Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-NC) investigated. Found no malfeasance.
FBI Director James Comey (also a lifelong Republican) investigated. Found no malfeasance.
Why can’t you accept the conclusions of your own party’s investigations?
Is this like the FBI/DOJ thing, where it took most of a day to convince you that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is, indeed, a division of the Justice Department?

nope dunghead won’t do. She is a criminal, FBI confirmed that when he said she had classified emails on her private server. She also lied to congress about not having more than one device. She is a proven liar and a not charged criminal.

And computers don’t directly know about domains. They know about IP addresses. Domains (such as clinton.com) are registered. The registration authority connects the domain name with the IP address through what’s called a domain name server (DNS). A DNS is pretty much like an internet phone book…connecting the name to the number.

Then, the owner of the domain can create e-mail IDs to add to the domain….in front of the @ sign. (There are more steps to this, but that’s the essence.)

I am sure that’s correct. However, how does Assange and WikiLeaks manage to get into US government files without knowing the domain. It cannot be a matter of just hacking using a dot.gov domain name.

Another issue. CrowdStrike was able to figure out that the Russians were the ones who hacked into DNC emails. I saw the interview on Charlie Rose with a CrowdStrike employee who testified that the Russians were not collecting data to figure out what the Clinton campaign was doing. It was far more dangerous than that. The Russians collected data on Hillary’s supporters in order to use that info to alter our votes.

Well, in Podesta’s case he got a phishing e-mail. The e-mail pretended to be from his ISP and told him to change his password immediately. However the password change procedure gave the bad guys his old and new passwords. That’s how they got his e-mails. The interesting this is he asked his IT guy if the e-mail was legit and was told it was. Oops.

Since voting process is so distributed (no centralization even statewide, much less nationally) and voting machines not connected to the internet, I wouldn’t worry about our votes being changed by the Russians.

Of course you’re right, airglass. The FBI rogues should be in jail, and Comey should be fired on Nov. 9, and Trump should be in prison for raping a 13-year-old girl and cheating on his taxes, and Christie should be under indictment …

But you ask why can’t the Dems get their message out?

In part, because of this:
On Sunday Oct. 31 all the TV “news” show pundits talked about was the “bombshell” of Comey’s letter. They talked about the “reopening” of the investigation, thought that’s not what it was; they talked about Hillary’s “criminality” — or let all the Trumpeters do so; they talked about how the email “scandal” would change the election outcome.

What NONE of them talked about was that Miss Finland accused Donald Trump of groping her at the Miss Universe pageant, or that a new investigation by David Farenthold showed that Trump had lied repeatedly about his charitable activities and contributions, or that the former FBI agent behind the leaks to Giuliani was an avid Trump supporter who runs a “charity” for veterans that received A) its largest single gift ever from Donald Trump after he was shamed into it last spring, and B) the only charitable contribution Trump has been known to make in the past decade.

Nor did they mention that the FBI “investigation” (by rogue NY agents loyal to Giuliani) of the Clinton Foundation and a so-called “pay-to-play scandal” was based entirely on the proven-false book “Clinton Cash” written under the auspices of Donald Trump’s campaign chairman Steve Bannon, head of Breitbart media. Not one supervisor in the FBI headquarters found a single credible piece of evidence against the Foundation — but the NY agents (in “Trumpville”) insisted they were being thwarted from investigating a “huge scandal.”

How many talk show hosts discussed any of that news? NONE.

And that’s why “the Dems can’t seem to get their message out clearly.” Because GE and Fox and WSJ are all owned and run by corporate Republicans.

It was easy to see where Gowdy and Chaffetz were going with their EmailGate at the last investigation. Gowdy was so determined to get Comey to say under oath that Hillary was guilty of something.

First. The U.S. Constitution that Gowdy, the Republicans and Trump are desperate to trash states clearly that you are innocent until proven guilty. But that is not what the GOP attack dogs want. They want to be able to Republicanize the FBI and all law enforcement. Why? So when they say you are guilty with NO proof, you are guilty according to Republican law. Why else would Gonzalez overload the DOJ with ONLY Republican lawyers and appoint them all U.S. Attorneys? He knew that by doing that, the Republicans would control law and worse, the SC, no matter how becomes president.

Shirer’s book was informative and depressing. I was astounded and perplexed why men would go to such lengths to perpetuate a myth and cause such suffering.
Yes, the resurrection of the rabidness of the soul that afflicted Hitler et al is happening again on American soil. The carnage will not be the same, but the psychological impact on the minds of children and youth won’t be known until later.

What evidence could there possibly be if Weiner was the one using his cell phone to post lewd photos of himself to a 21 year old in Seattle WA who accepted them? The FBI confiscated his cell phone and he knowingly took possession of his wife’s laptop without her permission. But like some men in this country, what any woman says goes in one ear and quickly out the other. But notice how the fact that Huma Abedin was a Hillary employee Trump just like Chris Christie dumped on the women?

Are these men or are they little boys who are so irresponsible everything is Big Bad Mommy’s fault? Some men claim that the minute HER HUSBAND’s schlong went viral, she should have quit HER job. Right. He does the crime and she does the time? BS to that.

Unfortunately men (especially weak and insecure men) have been dumping on women ever since time began. It started out with the man who first made up the tale of Genesis and blamed Eve for original sin, caused by her eating of the forbidden Fruit of Knowledge. And still, thousands of years later, it continues.

http://election.scholastic.com/vote/
Hillary Clinton Wins Scholastic Student Vote
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Kids across the U.S. have cast their votes for president.

Most voters will make their picks for president on November 8, but our readers have already made their choice. Hillary Clinton won this year’s Scholastic Student Vote.

The Democratic candidate for president received 52 percent of the student votes, while her main challenger, Republican Donald Trump, received 35 percent. The remaining 13 percent
was split among dozens of write-in candidates.

The person with the third most votes was Gary Johnson of the Libertarian Party, who received about 2 percent. Not far behind were Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont,who had challenged Clinton for the Democratic nomination (the act of being formally chosen as a candidate for a job or position), and Green Party candidate Jill Stein. About 153,000 students nationwide, from kindergarten through grade 12, voted online or by mail-in paper ballot.

Since 1940, the results of the student vote have usually mirrored the outcome of the presidential election. In fact, Scholastic readers have been wrong only twice. In 1948, kids picked Thomas E. Dewey over President Harry S. Truman. And in 1960, more students voted for Richard M. Nixon than for the eventual president, John F. Kennedy.

The crux is that FBI agents, like the US Military, swear an oath to uphold The Constitution and follow LAWFUL orders. Executive obstruction and gag orders are NOT lawful and FBI agents are oath bound to ignore them. Wake up… the corruption of the FBI and DOJ are at senior levels, not in the trenches.

It is an interesting group of supporters for Trump. White supremacists, Russia, the FBI, the KKK, the Republican Party, evangelical Christians, xenophobes, Islamophobes, homophobes, racists, sexists, the NRA, MSM, RW media, the alt.right media, conspiracy theorists, rapists, charlatans, neo-nazis, and sycophants have banded together in support of their Glorious Leader.

It is sickeningly sad that so many Washington DC Republicans refuse to reject the types of voters Jon listed. Wm. F. Buckley, flawed as he was, at least had enough sense to rid the party of the John Birch Society. McConnell, Paul Ryan et al didn’t have the guts to defy the TeaParty, and now they’ve morphed into Trumpers.

Leftout . . . is that you AgLander ? Writes just like you do. By the way how are things in Russia ? Is Putin fuming because his li’l bosom buddy Trumpty-Rumpty is losing the elections ? I mean how could that be possible since you ruskies have been bending over backwards giving Rumpty all the help imaginable – hacking Hillarys emails, hacking the DNC emails, trolling all over the internet, stuffing online polls, spreading lies and conspiracy theories. With all you’ve done and still Rumpty is not winning ! Yep bet old Putie is livid.

Leftout is truly left out . . . left way out in the sun too long and it fried Leftout’s little pea brain. Anybody that would wish another 4 to 8 years of a do nothing congress and senate must be a Russian troll – because no sane, American citizen would ever wish for such a waste of time and money. If the RepubliCONs are going to be doing nothing then let us get rid of them. Vote Blue all down the Ballot #StrongerTogether

The FBI,Must be purged,and I do mean PURGED after the election! They cannot be allowed to function in the same fashion as the Russian KGB,or the Gestapo of years gone by as the NAZI Gestapo!!I The “American KGB,(AKA) the FBI) must be held accountable for what they have done to this election!

You have serious mental issues if you actually believe this garbage. Hillary has been in Republican crosshairs for 30 years or more; she has been subject to witch hunt after witch hunt, including the whole Benghazi fiasco, on which Republicans spent more time than the 9-11 commission spent on the 9-11 investigation.

You are truly delusional and are basically the equivalent of the witchfinders in the middle ages; you don;t care about the truth or reality or logic, all you want is to see her burn, for your own sick reasons.

After 30 years of being investigated and ZERO, NADA, ZILCH being found, you could make the argument that Hillary is in fact the squeaky cleanest politician we have; she’s certainly been vetted more thoroughly than any other in the history of this country.

Now why don’t you go stand in front of a mirror and take a good inventory of why you feel compelled to believe every single bad rumor and innuendo about her, but none of the facts? Personally, I think it points to a serious mental and emotional defect in you.

Aside from failed candidate Trump, what IS it with these ‘Locker Her Up’ people?
EVERY investigation of Sec. Clinton has been led by the GOP.
Don’t they trust the work and conclusions of their own investigators and prosecutors?

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Hillary Clinton is a former Senator from New York State, and a former Secretary of State of the United States of America. Donald Trump is a failed businessman who cheats on his taxes and defrauds the federal government of millions of dollars. While Trump was building the Trump Taj Mahal Casino-hote., New Jersey regularors warned him not to use junk bond financing to finance the Taj Mahal. Trump assured them he would not do so, and then proceeded to do just that. ALLWall Street stated unequivocally that the Trump Taj Mahal would NEVER generate enough revenue to pay back the junk bond holders. It turned out that Wall Street was right, as the Trump Taj Mahal declared bankruptcy shortly after opening. Once again, Trump defraududed the investors and stiffed the contractors.http://www.nj.com/opinion/index.ssf/2016/09/nj_businessman_i_sold_trump_100k_worth_of_pianos.html
After losing all the borrowed money, Trump proceeded to claim the loss of the money he borrowed from the junk bond holders and then never repaidad as a presonal so loss on his income taxes so he would not have to pay income taxes for many years. The man has no shame! This can not be legal. If it were, nobody would pay income taxes. It is too easy to borrow money, fail to pay it back, and then claim the loss on your income taxes. If this were legal, everybody would do it!
They got Al Capone on income tax evasion and sent him to prison for a long time; maybe the authorities will do the same to Trump. I hope so.http://historicalpast.com/rare-photos-from-the-past-show-a-time-when-mobsters-ruled-all/32

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